Truck



Dec. 4, 1928.

C. KLEIN TRUCK Filed Sept. 1926 Fla. 2

INVENTOR. Caz '1 KIezn- ATTORNEY.

Patented Dec. 4, 1928.

cant KLEIN, or wreiiira rmnsas.

TRUCK.

My invention relates to improvements in trucks, adapted for the cartageof barrels, and has for its chief object means for tilting andsupporting the barrel while being loaded on the truck.

A further object of my invention is to provide a truck that can beattached to a barrel that is standing on end, hold it properly loadedwhile the truck is being rocked rearward to conveying positioneliminating the handling of the barrel by hand.

These and other objects will hereinafter be more fully explained.

Referring to the drawings:

Fig; 1 is a sideelevation of the truck positioned at the side of abarrel.

Fig. 2 is a rear elevation of the truck and barrel.

Fig. 3 is a plan View of Fig. 1.

Fig. 4 is an enlarged detailed view of the chime hooks.

Fig. 5 is an enlarged detailed view of the toe members, parts brokenaway for convenience of illustration. 7

The truck herein described consists of a pair of tubular side arms 1;said arms being parallel and rigidly connected by arcuated members 2 and2. The members 2 are con nected centrally by a bar 3 on which isslidably mounted a U-shaped member 4: the blades of which functioning ashooks have a plurality of notches 5 along the edges thereof to engageover the chime of the barrel as tilting means therefor as the truck isrocked rearward.

ltigidly attached to the arms and centrally positioned between thearcnated members 2 and 2 are brackets 6 functioning as bars for thewheels 7 trunnioned therein as at 8. Itotatably mounted in the hollow ofthe side arms 1 are shafts 9 having handles 10 rigidly connected andlaterally extending therefrom as turning means for the shafts. On theopposite ends of the shafts are positioned shanks 11 threadedly engagingin the ends of said shafts as at 12 and in axial alignment therewith;the said shanks having laterally extending toe members 13 which rotatewith the shafts when actuated by the handles 10. The said handles alsofunction as grips for the truck while transporting the load. The toemembers function as supporting means engaging beneath the head of a.barrel 14 which when loaded on the truck will rest in the arcuatedmembers heretofore described.

Adjacent the rear end of the tubular side arms is a slot- X extendingabout one quarter of the circumference. The said slot is adapted toengage a pin Y that rigidly positioned in the shaft 9. The said slot andpin function as stopping means for the rotation:

The operation of the mechanism herein disa reference being had to thedrawings.

closed will be as follows,

The truck when conveyed to a barrel is tilted on end as shown in Figs. 1and 3 with the-toe members engaging on the floor and turned outward tospan the periphery of the barrel. The hook is then slid downward on itsrespective bar until one pair of its notches will engage over the chimeof the barrel.

Then by rocking the truck rearward. to a position shown by dotted linesB, the toe memmay be rocked in the direction of the arrows C toengagement beneath the barrel to prevent it from sliding downward whenthe truck is rocked rearward to a transporting position. It will beunderstood that the curved or arcuated members are not merely madearcuated for the purpose of forming a seat on which the barrel willrest, but they are arcuated: first, to provide bearing points for thetruck on the line A-A in the horizontal plane, which is the floor, andto provide bearing points for the barrel located on the line 13-13 inthe horizontal plane, the lines A-A and B-E being spaced apart. Thiscould be accomplished by using straight line members instead of arcuatedmembers, although arcuated members are necessary for the second reason,as follows In handling barrels whose radii are smaller than that of thearcuated members on the truck, the barrel will locate itself centrallybetween the side members of the truck so that when the toes are turnedin they will both catch under the barrel and hold it from slippingdownward 01f the truck. Straight line members instead of arcuatedmembers would not handle the small barrels correctly as the barrel couldroll fromv one side to the other and only one toe would engage the bottom thereof and would then be likely to take a slanting position acrossthe truck, which would then be undesirable for handling the barrel; butthe arcuated members will cause the barrel to roll to the middle andtherefore be in alignment with the truck. It will be understood that thehook member slidably engageson the barrel and will accommodate forlongitudinal movement of the barrel when loading same.

To detach from the barrel the truck is rocked upward to a similarposition as when being loaded or until the barrel rests on the floorreleasing its bearing on the toe members, at which time the said toeswill be rocked outward from under the barrel allowing it to restuprightly on the floor, then by raising the hook membe the truck may beremoved.

' Such modifications may be employed as lie within the scope of theappended claims.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new and desire tosecure by Letters Patent, is

1. In a mechanism of the kind described, a truck having a frame withtubular side arm members and arcuate cross members to receive andsupport a barrel, a bar member carried by the arcuate members of theframe, and a hook member to slidably and rockably engage on the barmember, the hook to engage with the chime of a barrel to rock the samerearward with the truck, a shaft rotatably engaging in each of the sidearm members, a toe member laterally extending and integrally connectedto the front end of each of the shafts, a curved portion at the oppositeend of each of the shafts functioning as handles and turning means forthe shafts to rock the toes beneath the chime of a barrel as it isrocked rearward.

2. In a truck, a frame and a pair of wheels spaced rearward a shortdistance from the front end of the frame, hollow side arms for theframe, a shaft rotatably mounted within each of the arms, a. toe membertransversely positioned to the shafts and integrally connected at oneend of each thereof, a heel for the toe member in axial alignment withthe shaft, a curved portion at the opposite end of each shafttransversely positioned to the toe members and serving as means to rockthe toes inward as the truck is rocked rearward by the said curvedportions, a hook member slidably and rockably carried by the frame andadapted to engage with the chime of a barrel when the truck isvertically positioned to the side thereof, the hook functioning asrocking means for the barrel as the truck is rocked rearward thereby,the heels functioning as fulcrum points at which time the toes are freeto rock beneath the barrel while being loaded on the truck.

CARL KLEIN.

